A Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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John Kenneth Galbraith
American - Economist
October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

George Bernard Shaw

If you're making a film about a band or a songwriter or whomever, there's a publisher, there's a record label, and there are people who are vested interests in that film. But with back-up singers, because they did stuff for everybody, there's no one party that has any vested interest in seeing the story told.

Morgan Neville

If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest.

Graeme Samuel

The state and its leaders have not only a responsibility but also a vested interest in defending the sacredness and value of every human life.

Blase J. Cupich

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.

Andrew Goodman

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

Errol Morris

Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

Desmond Tutu

The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.

Tony Blair

There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.

Sylvia Earle

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Sean O'Casey

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

Elon Musk

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

Arianna Huffington

ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.

Isabel Briggs Myers

American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and by the owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to the [White House] and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos [in] the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both sides of the story.

Denis Halliday

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

Jeremy Paxman

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